Segna di Bonaventura - Madonna and Child, c

Segna di Bonaventura, also known as Segna de Bonaventura, and as Segna di Buonaventura, was an Italian painter of the Sienese School. He was active from about 1298 to 1331. In 1306 he painted a panel for the office of the

Biccherna The Biccherna was the magistrate or chancellery of finance from the 13th to the 14th century for the republic and then city of Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy. The records of the office are significant not only because Siena was one of the earlie ...

in the

Palazzo Pubblico The Palazzo Pubblico (''town hall'') is a palace in Siena, Tuscany, central Italy. Construction began in 1297 to serve as the seat of the Republic of Siena's government, which consisted of the Podestà and Council of Nine, the elected officia ...

in Siena. In 1317 he painted an altar panel for the convent of Lecceto (near Siena). In 1319 he repaired a figure of the Virgin in the Palazzo Pubblico. In 1321 he painted a panel for the Palazzo Pubblico. Segna di Bonaventura’s sons

Niccolò di Segna Niccolò di Segna (died around 1348) was an Italian painter from Siena. His activity is documented starting from 1331. Influenced by Duccio di Buoninsegna and Simone Martini, he was an exponent of the Sienese School. He collaborated with Pietro ...

and Francesco di Segna di Bonaventura were also painters of the Sienese School Like

Duccio Duccio di Buoninsegna ( , ; – ) was an Italian painter active in Siena, Tuscany, in the late 13th and early 14th century. He was hired throughout his life to complete many important works in government and religious buildings around Italy. Ducc ...

, Segna di Bonaventura’s paintings are characterized by graceful curvilinear rhythms and subtle blends of colors. The

Alte Pinakothek The Alte Pinakothek (, ''Old Pinakothek'') is an art museum located in the Kunstareal area in Munich, Germany. It is one of the oldest galleries in the world and houses a significant collection of Old Master paintings. The name Alte (Old) Pi ...

(Munich), the

Honolulu Museum of Art The Honolulu Museum of Art (formerly the Honolulu Academy of Arts) is an art museum in Honolulu, Hawaii. The museum is the largest of its kind in the state, and was founded in 1922 by Anna Rice Cooke. The museum has one of the largest single co ...

, the

Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 ...

, the

Minneapolis Institute of Arts The Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) is an arts museum located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Home to more than 90,000 works of art representing 5,000 years of world history, Mia is one of the largest art museums in the United Stat ...

, the

North Carolina Museum of Art The North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) is an art museum in Raleigh, North Carolina. It opened in 1956 as the first major museum collection in the country to be formed by state legislation and funding. Since the initial 1947 appropriation that e ...

, and the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena are among the public collections having paintings by Segna di Bonaventura.

References

* Fredericksen, Burton and

Federico Zeri Federico Zeri (12 August 1921 – 5 October 1998) was an Italian art historian specialised in Italian Renaissance painting. He wrote for the Italian newspaper '' La Stampa'', and was a well known television-personality in Italy. Zeri was born i ...

, “Census of 14th-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections”, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1972.

Gallery

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Mary Magdalen Mary Magdalene (sometimes called Mary of Magdala, or simply the Magdalene or the Madeleine) was a woman who, according to the four canonical gospels, traveled with Jesus as one of his followers and was a witness to his crucifixion and resurre ...

'', painting on wood by Segna di Bonaventura, c. 1320,

, Munich File:Segna di Bonaventura. St John the Evangelist. Metropolitan, N-Y.jpg, ''St. John the Evangelist'', painting by Segna di Bonaventura, 1320s,

, New York City File:Segna di Bonaventura.Crucifix. Siena, Pinacoteca Nazionale. 1310-1315..jpg, Crucifix by Segna di Bonaventura, 1310–15, Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena File:Segna di Bonaventura. Madonna with Child.c.1310. detail.Minneapolis Institute of Arts.jpg, ''Madonna with Child'' (detail), painting by Segna di Bonaventura, c. 1310,

External links

''Italian Paintings: Sienese and Central Italian Schools''
a collection catalog containing information about Bonaventura and his works (see index; plates 1-3). {{Authority control 13th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 14th-century Italian painters Trecento painters Painters from Siena Year of death unknown Year of birth unknown Gothic painters